Identifying a Hand Plane

These pictures are of a hand plane that was given to me by a friend. He picked it up at a local auction for about $5. Since I know nothing about planes, I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about it. I plan on restoring if possible. The only name on it is Dunlap and I haven’t seen any numbers.

dunlop was a sears brand and that particular plane was possibly made by stanley. millers falls made them as well but have a different lateral lever. after the purchase of sargent stanley used the sargent lateral on planes it made for other companies. ive seen early planes with the lateral that were made by sargent. i would believe that model to be made by stanley post ww2.

That’s funny, I’ve got mine cooking to. Thanks to all the info from you lumberjocks I put together a 5 gallon bucket etc and made me a electrolysis bath. Don W I like your container, seems like you can see everything better. I think I will change to your set up when I get by Wal-Mart. I’ll put up some pictures latter.

Don would you not get a better overall finish if you removed all the old oil/varvish finish then refinished it from scratch ? It’s just a though , on an otherwise wonderful restoration well done my friend you are right to be proud of this. Alistair

I never try to remove all of the old patina/history. Would it be better if I did? Maybe to some. I like to leave remnants of its past. You can’t see it in the pictures, but the owner inscribed his name and address in the side of the plane. Should I take it out? Depends on who you talk to.

I’d love to here other opinions. Should it be stripped total? Or should the history remain?

Don that looks awsome. I would leave the history especially if the previous owner inscribed it. I got side tracked and was not able to do anything to my plane except take it out of the bath, clean, dry and oil. I was amazed at how well the electrolysis worked. Of course I don’t know a lot about flattening the back of the iron, fileing the frog flat, sharpening, etc…... so I’ve got a little reading to do. Probably some trial and error stuff.